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| Photo/ Indian Country Today |
September 9, 2016
Democratic Socialists of America
(DSA) condemns the ongoing state and corporate violence against the just
resistance of the Dakota Sioux Standing Rock indigenous people to the violation
of their land and treaty rights by the Energy Transfer Partners’ construction
of the Dakota Access crude oil pipeline. Energy Transfer has vengefully
bulldozed a historic tribal burial ground and with state sanction assaulted
peaceful protesters with private security dogs. Both acts represent another
atrocity in the long history of forced removal and genocide against indigenous
peoples by an occupying white power structure. Contrast these brutal tactics
with the cautious treatment of far-right-wing racist white hate groups that
have tried to privatize federal lands. We hope that the federal government’s
recent decision to reconsider the building of the pipeline on native land will
lead to the permanent end to the construction of the pipeline.
